A team of physicists working with a 1300-metric-ton particle detector called the OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) believe they have tracked neutrinos traveling roughly 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light....

An experiment carried out by John-Dylan Haynes in 2007 has neuroscientists and philosophers up in arms about whether free will exists. Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, argues that consciousness of a decision may just be a biochemical afterthought.